Alotrium (Expanded Performance)
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- The exhibition called Mischief00:00:05.887
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- comes out from a long-term project.00:00:07.484
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- We called the project Expanded Performance,00:00:10.162
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- I set it up together with the visual artist00:00:13.419
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- and performer Tomáš Hodboď in 2012.00:00:16.738
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- The aim of Expanded Performance is to00:00:20.576
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- deal with performance art in the context of further issues,00:00:24.264
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- such as authenticity, theatricality but also00:00:30.251
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- contemporary art performativity in general.00:00:34.703
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- The exhibition Mischief is the third00:00:40.595
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- exhibition event of Expanded Performance.00:00:43.749
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- We managed to present about twenty one authors00:00:47.045
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- dealing with performance art00:00:52.289
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- or working in a noticeably processual way.00:00:58.349
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- Our principal intention was00:01:03.269
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- not to make an exhibition of performers00:01:05.350
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- but rather about performance art.00:01:08.124
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- Most of it was made during the exhibition preparation00:01:13.803
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- which is generally typical of performance.00:01:19.496
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- Until the last moment we didn't know how it'd come out.00:01:23.724
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- So the exhibition preparation was processual from start to finish.00:01:28.270
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- I'd like to mention three main principles00:01:34.005
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- appearing at the exhibition.00:01:38.194
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- They deal with a relation of performance art00:01:40.924
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- to the installation or the issue of performances and instructions.00:01:43.882
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- The author Karíma Al-Mukhtar works00:01:50.100
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- with the theme of installation and performance.00:01:52.932
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- She made another part of her series Cooking Art.00:01:57.171
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- She was inspired by the popular serial MythBusters00:02:03.248
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- dealing with an event that may have happened,00:02:06.947
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- happened or is perhaps just a rumour.00:02:10.791
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- For this exhibition she picked a myth00:02:15.689
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- about breaking glass with a voice.00:02:18.342
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- The myth comes out from a legend00:02:21.665
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- about a jazz singer who managed to00:02:23.338
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- do so during her performance.00:02:25.342
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- The installation at the exhibition consists00:02:27.647
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- of a combo and two glasses00:02:30.416
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- and it reckons on the viewers' interaction.00:02:32.742
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- Anyone can try following the author's instructions00:02:36.269
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- to tune up the right frequency and break the glass.00:02:39.743
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- In connection with the performance history,00:02:45.187
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- the relation of an event which may have or00:02:48.543
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- have not happened is very interesting.00:02:51.417
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- It works similarly to a performative history00:02:55.369
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- when events that took place but00:02:58.604
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- weren't documented could have been later mythicised00:03:01.971
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- and therefore became a mere myth.00:03:06.373
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- Likewise all the stories about00:03:09.504
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- someone breaking a glass with his voice.00:03:11.469
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- We found important to offer00:03:14.042
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- an unconventional theoretic context,00:03:15.565
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- which is made here available by legends,00:03:18.163
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- each work has a rather wordy legend00:03:20.516
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- and I guess it's quite important00:03:24.087
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- to provide the performance00:03:26.519
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- which is very topical with a special theoretic context00:03:29.440
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- which is missing at the Czech performance art scene00:03:34.244
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- at the moment in my opinion.00:03:37.043